Living Well Wednesday February 8

Welcome to another Living Well Wednesday hosted by Natalie from OneBusyWAHM.com! Each week we get together to chat about our goals and resolutions and stay accountable to each other. You can join in with your own blog or vlog and then link up on Natalie’s blog!

This week has been NUTS. Seriously. I can not even remember what happened on Thursday – but I know it had to be more calm than the rest of the week was.

Friday I got “that call” from Samantha’s school and spent the rest of the day at the Emergency Room and waiting on prescriptions. That whole day is a blur. I remember going to bed Friday night and feeling a lump in the back of my throat – kinda like when something is stuck cause you didn’t swallow it right. It was annoying but not painful so I didn’t think much more of it.

The weekend was mostly relaxing – I think I caught myself saying “I’m Bored” a few times which is SO unlike me. I get a little stir crazy when I am bored and normally launch into some big project of redecorating or something. In fact I thing the last time I said “I’m bored” was when I launched into the creation of my Cinderblock Garden – which I hope to put a water feature into this summer.

Sunday was Superbowl which was fun. Mike played in a poker tournament and Dad came over to watch the game. We cooked a ridiculous amount of food which we all have been grazing on all week. I thought for sure I was going to put back on every ounce I have lost but thankfully I didn’t. I did some yelling at the screen during the game and still had that “cant quite swallow” feeling going on – but again, since it wasn’t painful I ignored it.

Monday I started feeling funny and by the time my Conference Call began my voice was almost non existent and I squeaked through the last few minutes of the call. I took some Alkaseltzer Cold Nighttime and was in bed before the girls were. I slept nearly a solid 12 hours that night. I dont know what’s in that stuff – but it knocked me out.

When I woke up Tuesday my voice had morphed into that of a 100 year old man that had smoked two packs a day since he emerged from the womb. Yep, it’s sexy. My Conference Call Tuesday night was quite comical – and the recording does not even remotely sound like me. Probably will have to re-record that one.

So today I am trying to not talk unless I absolutely have to – Mike is thrilled – and instead I am focusing on working, creating new trainings, writing up blog posts, etc. I’ve joked a few times that I should get laryngitis (self diagnosis) more often if it means I can get this much done.

I will probably go to the doctor if my voice does not return or if this lump in my throat does not go away by Monday. I have to think I just picked something up while at the ER with Sami and there is nothing they can do for laryngitis anyway, so silly to go in. There is no pain – just that annoying feeling of trying to swallow something down every second and it wont move. And for my voice – honestly, a few days of NOT having to talk sounds pretty nice!

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Take care of your voice Lynsey; I want to be able to hear you on TMA this season! I’m sure you’re trying all the quick-fixes–hot water with lemon & honey, your grapefruit extract, Listerine (my own quick fix) & hot salt water. Take it easy girlfriend!

Feel better quickly! I need about 3 days of nothing to do to catch up with everything. It has seriously been too busy recently. I had to give up a social media event I’m supposed to cover tonight because my stomach has been killing me all day.